What happens when a well-known fashionista steps into town?

A fashion frenzy, what else? Something similar happened when well-known fashion designer Anju Modi was in Ahmedabad to showcase her outifts for a fashion show.

Anju who originally belongs to Rajasthan and later moved to Delhi, works extensively in the field of Indian heritage textiles for women. Having visited Ahmedabad several times in the past, Anju feels inspired to visit the city again and again to delve into the city’s rich handicrafts and textile scenario. As far as Ahmedabad’s fashion scenario is concerned, she feels that the city has developed quite a fashion sense in the recent past and that she really respects the Gujarati community as they don’t mind spending but they mind wasting.

“They are very smart and astute about their expenses. I have observed that Amdavadis are as trendy as people from any other cosmopolitan city in India,” he says.

Anju believes in designing garments that look different every time when teamed up with something new. “I like to style dresses that last for years. India is a tropical country and as there is not much variation in the temperature, so one doesn’t really need to change one’s wardrobe much.

I like to recycle clothes. For starters if you team a particular top with pants, salwar or skirt, this can change the entire look and you can easily look different and creative every time,” says Anju. So what is the fashion quotient this summer? “This summer handloom fabrics, khadi, cotton and matka silk are the best picks to look cool and trendy,” says the fashionista signing off.

Chihuahua owners can fork out almost £90,000 on pampering their pooches during the lifetime of the diminutive dogs.
The cost of owning the world's smallest breed of dog, a favourite with celebrites like Paris Hilton, Britnety Spears and Sharon Osbourne, far exceeds its larger cousins – a statistic that tells us much about the Chihuahua's owners.

According to research carried out by the pet insurers esure, Chihuahua owners are twice as likely as keepers of other breeds to buy fresh meat, vegetables and gravy for their pets.

They also have a weakness for spoiling their dogs by giving them jeweled collars, designer doggie outfits or personalised beds.

The total bill, including vet costs, food, grooming, kennels and insurance came to £6,081-per-year, working out at £88,691 during a Chihuahua's 13-year lifespan.

The average spent on other types of breed was £31,000, the equivalent of £2,388 a year.

"Today's household pets are treated more like members of the family and this new attitude is reflected in the amount owners spend on their pet's life style," said Mike Pickard, the head of pet insurance at esure.

One fifth of owners faced a larger financial challenge because they owned more than one dog.

The greyhound was the second most expensive breed with a lifetime bill of £82,797 followed by the mastiff, which costs £81,619.

The boxer was fourth at £49,896 while the English setter was just behind at £49,548.

The research found that vets fees, food and kennels were the most expensive outgoings in that order.

Leighton Meester was very excited to talk about the highly anticipated return of the hit show.

What should everyone expect from the rest of the season?
It’s five episodes that are actually nine episodes packed into five! So it’s a lot of stuff.

How’s it been working with Michelle Trachtenberg?
That’s really great. Actually I've only met her a couple of times. I haven’t had many scenes with her but I’m about to. So, you wait!

Do you think they’ll be some fire between you guys?
I think they’ll be a lot of fire between us. They’ll need to be!

Now that you've all become stars in your own right, how does the cast deal with the gossip and the rumors?
Um, we don’t! I’ve heard a lot of crazy stuff!

Any updates on your love life?
My dog is in L.A. right now… so I’m a little lost without him!

She may be a confused, overt, semi-illiterate school girl who has mailed "Radders" her panties every day since her 11th birthday, but today she showed the world that there was a hell of a lot more to Sophie Jayne when she won not only the popular reality TV show "Me and My Stalkers", but also the heart of hunky acting sensation Daniel Jacob Radcliffe.

The show was your bog standard reality type, at which Daniel and 24 women lived in a house closely watched by 240 cameras and the majority of the world. But this show had a dramatic twist; all 24 of the woman were stalkers of the Harry Potter star and itching to get into his pants.

As usual in this style of show, one girl was sent home each week. However, being stalkers, they usually managed to return. Nevertheless Sophie Jayne prevailed and last night in the grand final, she walked out of the stalker house hand in hand with Daniel Radcliffe.

Sophie's prize is Greek Islands and Mediterranean cruise with Radcliffe in a honeymoon suite onboard the Pacific Princess and they depart tomorrow morning.

"I love that girl." Radcliffe yelled at the after show party "She was the least crazy girl in the house and the best looking, so I guessed the best girl won, I can't wait for our little cruise."

The other stalker contestants, who include Daniel's co-star Emma Watson, are, to use Emma's own words "Well gutted", but what can I say? I won fair and square so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Now, on second glance you might look at this dress and think: "Eww!".

But on first glance I defy you not to think: "Doesn't Lindsay Lohan look good?"

Mind you, that's probably because we've been so used to seeing her walking around LA in black leggings and grey vest tops.

Lindsay clearly thought it was time to get some va-va-voom back into her wardrobe and don her gladrags, plus silver and white accessories, for the launch of Scarlet (which is a new type of TV - not a new TV show, as the advertisers would cunningly like you to think).

But a drop-waisted blue and white dress thingy? Really? Weeks of slobbing around and this is the best you can come up, with Linds? Here's to the next red carpet outing... 

India has successfully launched a rocket carrying a cluster of 10 satellites into space.

The rocket lifted off from Sriharikota island in southern Andhra Pradesh state, officials said.

It is carrying two Indian and eight foreign satellites. They are expected to provide data to enable India to plan rural and urban development.

The satellites were deployed in orbit within minutes of each other and the entire operation lasted 20 minutes.

'Historic moment'

"The mission was perfect," French news agency AFP quoted G Madhavan Nair, chairman of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), as saying.

"It is a historic moment for us because it is the first time that we have launched 10 satellites in a single mission," he added.

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Lane and former partner Mike Clark finally got together over the phone Thursday and, according to Lane, had a forthright talk about who knew what when about the timing of Lane's resignation and about the seriousness of Lane's desire to move to an afternoon drive time slot for personal reasons.

After a lengthy conversation, Lane says he and Clark are "on the same page more so than at any time since 2004."

Lane says "both of us have been misled by numerous people involved in this scenario." Lane also held out the possibility they could reunite sometime.

Want more? A lengthy question-and-answer session with Lane appears here, where he indicates he's just about done talking about the parting --for awhile.

Welcome, Snoop
Let there be Snoop! A British court has overruled the government's decision to deny rapper Snoop Dogg a visa after he was involved in an airport brawl in 2006.

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After a headline grabbing, couch jumping appearance back in June of 2005, Tom Cruise is making his triumphant return to The Oprah Winfrey Show.

“Tom will be doing the Oprah show,” Cruise’s rep Julie Polkes told People magazine. “He is really looking forward to it.”

The show will appear in two parts during May sweeps, celebrating the Top Gun stud’s career since hitting the big screen 25 years ago in “Risky Business”.

People reports tell that “One part will be shot in-studio before a live audience. In the other, Cruise will show Winfrey around his Telluride mountain retreat and do a portion of the interview at the home.”

The French-born actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the hit film series, finally got access to the £10.5 million she had amassed while working on the movies.
 
There won't be much splashing out, however, as Watson has been enrolled on a course to ensure she understands the responsibility of investing the money wisely.

The meetings had been arranged by Coutts, bankers for the Queen and included talks by private bankers on how to manage the fortune, set up a business and give to charity.

They were attended by other Harry Potter child stars including Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy.

Watson's fee for the next film in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is believed to be £2.5 million, with a further £3 million to be earned from the two part conclusion to the series, Deathly Hallows.

Emma Watson's other work has been the TV adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and an animated film, The Tale of the Despereaux, based on the book by Kate DiCamillo.

Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard, took control of his finances when he turned 18 last July. His estimated worth is around £24 million, having invested in property and businesses.

The CW network is taking aim at an unlikely competitive threat: its own Web site.

The network said Thursday that episodes of its series "Gossip Girl" will not be streamed on CWTV.com when "Gossip" returns Monday with original episodes through season's end. The first 12 episodes of the season, which will remain on the site, were made available free to viewers about a week after their original airdate.

The CW is trying to avoid being a victim of its own success: "Gossip" has proved to be a big draw online (http://www.CWTV.com), with each episode said to be generating hundreds of thousands of streams. Episodes routinely rank among the most downloaded on iTunes, which also will continue to offer new episodes.

CW is taking the counterintuitive step of limiting "Gossip" to test whether its online window is cannibalizing the TV audience.

"While the buzz on the show has remained strong, we decided to have it be that you can only get it on our airwaves," said a CW spokesman, who deemed the withdrawal an "experimental" move. "We'll see if that at all impacts the numbers."

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